Tetraphalerites
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Ommatidae |
| Genus: | †Tetraphalerites Crowson, 1962 |
| Species: | †T. oligocenicus
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| †Tetraphalerites oligocenicus Crowson, 1962
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Tetraphalerites is an extinct genus of ommatid archostematan beetle. It contains only one species, Tetraphalerites oligocenicus described by Roy Crowson in 1962 for a specimen from the Priabonian (late Eocene) aged Insect Limestone, Bembridge Marls of the Isle of Wight, UK.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ R. A. Crowson. 1962. Observations on the beetle family Cupedidae, with descriptions of two new fossil forms and a key to the recent genera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 13 5:147-157
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